Word: mocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enduring characters of European folklore is the gnome, a gnarled night creature who lives for centuries, stands only 6 in. when full grown but is seven times stronger than man. With exhilarating wit and tongue-in-cheek charm, Dutch Physician Wil Huygen and Illustrator Rien Poortvliet put together a mock sociological history of the gnome that is proving to be an astonishing money spinner. Ponderously titled leven en werken van de Kabouter (The Life and Work of the Gnomes) in The Netherlands, the book is a spoof that solemnly reports that, among other things, Mozart's gnome...
...Need Is Cash is a mock documentary that follows a legendary rock group called the Rutles from obscurity in Liverpool to international fame. Most of its events are overly familiar. Like the Beatles, the Rutles play Hamburg and the Ed Sullivan show; they revolutionize rock with an album called Sgt. Rutter's Dart Club Band; they receive M.B.E.s from the Queen and fall under the spell of a guru...
...course, all is as it should be, and Argan is made a doctor in a mock initiation ceremony put on by Beralde...
...Administration may have sound reason to dismiss these bold but admittedly untested ideas, but so far it has produced no convincing alternatives. The anti-inflation plan of Carter and Co., based mostly on friendly persuasion, is so weak and ineffectual that even White House insiders mock it as "wishboning." That is a category of soft talk inferior even to the old "jawboning," which other Presidents used?with distinctly mixed results ?in the crusade to hold down wage and price rises...
...Unmarried Woman, the director leaves his favorite turf, swinging Southern California, for the less laid-back precincts of Manhattan. He has the terrain down pat. The film unfolds in chic SoHo lofts, Upper East Side high-rises and glittery mock-deco bars. The characters are people who favor art by Paul Davis, go to sleep to the purr of the cable-TV news ticker, wear Adidas sneakers when jogging and fall in lust while shopping at Bloomingdale's. They are well-intentioned people, but they have a sad habit of wounding each other. Mazursky -whose sensibility is half John...